I'm not saying Pards out but, as someone said in another post, his tactics, team selection and subs today have really lowered my opinion of him as a manager.
Yeah I mentioned his starting line up, tactics and substitutions in the other post.
I can't see how you can play a midfield 4 of Holland, Semedo, Ambrose and Thomas. There is so little movement there and it's far too defensive centrally.
He brought on Varney far too late. He should have brought him on when the game was 1-1 and we were having our strongest spell.
[cite]Posted By: Fish[/cite]Yeah I mentioned his starting line up, tactics and substitutions in the other post.
I can't see how you can play a midfield 4 of Holland, Semedo, Ambrose and Thomas. There is so little movement there and it's far too defensive centrally.
He brought on Varney far too late. He should have brought him on when the game was 1-1 and we were having our strongest spell.
apart from them scoring,did you not feel that we were soo on top that our goal was always coming.putting the extra striker may have seen them score far sooner and maybe more?
[cite]Posted By: ThreadKiller[/cite]apart from them scoring,did you not feel that we were soo on top that our goal was always coming.putting the extra striker may have seen them score far sooner and maybe more?
Possible TK but also we may have had a couple more ourselves with an extra offensive player on the pitch (ZZ for Holland for example). Don't think it would have weakened us that much to be honest. We'll never know but as it was a game we had to win I think it was a chance we had to take.
I'm really having some doubts about Pardew now.We are so toothless it's unbelievable.
His style of play i.e lumping it up to the big fella and hoping for the best, is shameful and he has to be held accountable for it.His signings have not been much better.Filling a side with loan players sends a terrible message.
I hate to say it,but i think he may be getting us into a bigger mess than Dowie did.
Some very tough times ahead i think people.
[cite]Posted By: KenTred[/cite]Trouble is Murray appointed him, the same way he did Dowie and Reed. So if he goes Murray will only add to his mistakes and bring in another problem.
That's it Ken, always look on the bright side. Any future appointment is BOUND to be a mistake isn't it? I don't know one person who wasn't pleased with the appointment of Pardew - or are you saying you weren't? Hindsight is a wonderful thing you know.
[cite]Posted By: KenTred[/cite]actually he should be given two years min to prove he is up to it.
You're right Ken,but have you seen anything in the last say 10 performances to indicate that he is up to it?
It's hard to pull any positives from recent performances and this is what worries me.
If we were giving it a real go but maybe just not getting the rub of the green i'd have no problems with that,but the problems we have seem to be more widespread and appear to be getting worse.
Wrong team selection, wrong tactics, wrong signings. Our insistence on playing long ball this season might work if Iwelumo could win headers and two, if we were big and physical enough to handle it, we're not.
I'm not saying Pardew out but he really has to sort this mess of a team out in the summer, cut it down and create a TEAM out of it, otherwise we'll be dabbling with relegation next season.
[cite]Posted By: BigRedEvil[/cite]Wrong team selection, wrong tactics, wrong signings. Our insistence on playing long ball this season might work if Iwelumo could win headers and two, if we were big and physical enough to handle it, we're not.
Spot on BRE. Pardew's comments at the start of the seaon that we would be "playing our way out of this division" now seem laughable when you consider how we have acyually played!
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I can't see how you can play a midfield 4 of Holland, Semedo, Ambrose and Thomas. There is so little movement there and it's far too defensive centrally.
He brought on Varney far too late. He should have brought him on when the game was 1-1 and we were having our strongest spell.
Sorry Fish, I couldn't remember who had said it.
Bring on an extra goal scorer to press home the advantage.
Possible TK but also we may have had a couple more ourselves with an extra offensive player on the pitch (ZZ for Holland for example). Don't think it would have weakened us that much to be honest. We'll never know but as it was a game we had to win I think it was a chance we had to take.
His style of play i.e lumping it up to the big fella and hoping for the best, is shameful and he has to be held accountable for it.His signings have not been much better.Filling a side with loan players sends a terrible message.
I hate to say it,but i think he may be getting us into a bigger mess than Dowie did.
Some very tough times ahead i think people.
Yes, Murray chairs the footballing company, Chappell chairs the holding company.
That's it Ken, always look on the bright side. Any future appointment is BOUND to be a mistake isn't it? I don't know one person who wasn't pleased with the appointment of Pardew - or are you saying you weren't? Hindsight is a wonderful thing you know.
You're right Ken,but have you seen anything in the last say 10 performances to indicate that he is up to it?
It's hard to pull any positives from recent performances and this is what worries me.
If we were giving it a real go but maybe just not getting the rub of the green i'd have no problems with that,but the problems we have seem to be more widespread and appear to be getting worse.
Whats the point of this? Who on earth could/would do anything better than Pardew has? Dowie? f~*king Coleman?
I know who, Martin O'Neil! Or Arsene Wenger!!
Problem is when things are not going quite so well positivity pisses a lot of you off it seems.
Weaver probably and most likely Gray given the money spent. But who else.
3rd goal is harsh to blame him but i agree he could/should have known henry was there.
I'm not saying Pardew out but he really has to sort this mess of a team out in the summer, cut it down and create a TEAM out of it, otherwise we'll be dabbling with relegation next season.
Spot on BRE. Pardew's comments at the start of the seaon that we would be "playing our way out of this division" now seem laughable when you consider how we have acyually played!
Therefore we are overly reliant on players who were here before he arrived, I only think Weaver has been a success of those he has brought in.
more Andy Gray really... same time... sameish price... same kind of move from "smaller" to "bigger"... both had scored plenty of goals at this level
don't think we chased the right one!